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Tag Archives: Trump
Hard shell, soft core
The late antique poet Claudian wrote a series of seven short epigrams on a fluid inclusion (or ‘enhydro’); these poems form part of a collection of Carmina minora (‘Shorter poems’), where they feature under the title De crystallo cui aqua … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Claudian, Crystals, Curiosity, Enhydro, Fluid inclusions, Food for thought, Gemstones, Humanity, Latin poetry, Marvels, Nature, Poetry, Political Discourse, Preciousness, Resist, Resist beginnings, Trump, Truth
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Principiis obsta: resist beginnings!
Ovid, in his elegiac poem Remedia Amoris (‘Remedies for Love’), writes (Ov. rem. 89–94, transl. J. H. Mozley): Quale sit id, quod amas, celeri circumspice mente, et tua laesuro subtrahe colla iugo. Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur, cum mala per … Continue reading
Facts vs. alternative facts (formerly known as ‘bull$#!^’): an ancient poem
Phaedrus, Rome’s fabulist of the first century A. D., wrote a remarkable piece called Poeta de credere et non credere, ‘The poet’s judgement with respect to believing and not believing’ (Phaedr. 3.10). This is the rather delightful 1761 translation of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Alternative Facts, Big questions, Bullshit, Fabulae, Facts, Falsehoods, Kellyanne Conway, Lies, Phaedrus, Poetry, Post-Truth, Sean Spicer, Trump, Truth
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Fake News and Post-Truth Politics
There is a widespread, distinct feeling that Western politics has entered a phase of what tends to be called ‘post-truth politics‘. The term ‘post-truth politics’, often accompanied by references to fake news and disinformation campaigns, looks like a euphemism for … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Fake News, Falsehoods, Food for thought, Government, Humanity, Lies, Linguistics, Post-Truth, Rhetoric, Trump, Truth, War and Peace
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No safe (and therefore a special) place
American Vice-President-Elect Mike Pence went to the theatre to enjoy a performance of ‘Hamilton’, when this happened: President-Elect Donald Trump apparently was not particularly happy with this and felt compelled to put his own trademark (a.k.a. low-fact, boastful) spin on … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Cicero, Drama, Horace, Pence, Political Discourse, Safe places, Tacitus, Theatre, Trump
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False Etymologies
With a little (and really only just a little) too much time on my hands, I recently thought: why not enter terms that are on my mind a lot as search strings into the Packhum Latin database and see what … Continue reading
